Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates)
John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Fri, 13 March 2009 21:52 UTC
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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates)
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Doug Ewell scripsit: > Then if you like, view the "legacy" variants as warts on the side of a > collection of '6' variants. Doesn't matter; the warts are not going > away. True, but then the irregular tags aren't going away either: nonetheless, most of them can be easily deprecated. > Despite its size and ambitious goals, and the expertise of those > preparing it, I would be very surprised if 639-6 encompassed a proper > superset of everything that has ever been (a) registered in the Registry > or (b) taken seriously but not registered in the Registry, going back to > the whole tags registered under RFC 1766/3066. That is one of the major > problems with claiming that 639-6 will enable ietf-languages to be shut > down. Well, it may not contain them now, but if something is a language variant, it ought to have a 639-6 tag, because 639-6 is deliberately unselective. -- MEET US AT POINT ORANGE AT MIDNIGHT BRING YOUR DUCK OR PREPARE TO FACE WUGGUMS John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 (was: Geocoordinates) John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 Gerard Meijssen
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] ISO 639-6 Randy Presuhn